The Pond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE AAGCCG CCACCA DDHDDI| Gray were the rushes | A |
| Beside the budless bushes | A |
| Green patched the pond | B |
| The lark had left soaring | C |
| Though yet the sun was pouring | C |
| His gold here and beyond | B |
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| Bramble branches held me | D |
| But had they not compelled me | D |
| Yet had I lingered there | E |
| Hearing the frogs and then | F |
| Watching the water hen | F |
| That stared back at my stare | E |
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| There amid the bushes | A |
| Were blackbird's nests and thrush's | A |
| Soon to be hidden | G |
| In leaves on green leaves thickening | C |
| Boughs over long boughs quickening | C |
| Swiftly unforbidden | G |
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| The lark had left singing | C |
| But song all round was ringing | C |
| As though the rushes | A |
| Were sighingly repeating | C |
| And mingling that most sweet thing | C |
| With the sweet note of thrushes | A |
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| That sweetness rose all round me | D |
| But more than sweetness bound me | D |
| A spirit stirred | H |
| Shadowy and cold it neared me | D |
| Then shrank as if it feared me | D |
| But 'twas I that feared | I |
John Freeman
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